Your output encoding is not UTF-8, there may be issues with the software when anything is printed to the terminal or log files

Hi, I get the error message shown in the title when I run management commands on my AskBot installation.

My terminal is configured for UTF-8. What else could be wrong?

In this case your python output encoding for stdout and stderr streams is not "utf-8". The message gives you a warning as whenever a non-ascii message is logged or printed to the standard output there will be an exception.

For example - statements like logging.debug('....') may cause 500 errors in this situation.

One solution to this is to have logging.debug('....').encode('utf-8')) everywhere - to make sure that you print just bytes, but this would be too tedious. Another - set the output encoding to 'utf-8' at run time.